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panei FEARS ON BRITISH! SECURITY Surgess and Maclean Case Likely to Hardén Attitude to Atomic - Secrets By NICHOLAS CARROLL, The Sanday Times Diplomatic Correspondent “(HE Government's belated admissions in the ease of Burgess afd Maclean have once again forought to the fore the question pf changes between Britain asdj the United States of highly secyet about i Secret Methods formation mucleag j deapons, The main effect of the m this point, Uke Government hav : bogn enigmatic, There has heen “a mors te Paper, issued on Friday. 1s ely to he the hardening of the - whieh Sir | esfensive security check than was pre ously the practice >" searching induiries ent position, of inston Churchill complained so tery when Prime Minister, under ebleh there is still no disclosure of formiation on the design or manu~ ature of such weapons. feat distrust of British secarity, detlay Wie ‘ending of cone ccunnges of atomic weapon secrets, HRS wen the most costly and frustraing of } he Many recurrent Anglo-Amecivan ues, If has fed io mush unnecessary ‘uplication of research and experinwn’. | o the crippling of Yaison within the? atic Treaty ifsation, and j no che embarrassment of ufficals of path | countries at every level of miliary co- seration, fore the White Paper's. app! Train question in the minds of d hose cqunities Have the cid dowasr 7 What bye rena done to ensure and associates of al! those ecoupying or applymg for positions in the Poreiga Oiice involving highly seeret Informa- | . Hon.” prinripal allies hiet among them iether the heck" nad | ais ar TRarrangr: “ais is precisely what | not told, on the ground that bke espionage. de- Wand eid Biates the Umit “more Sone ‘under. the sanow of | : ibe" witch-hunting.” tad a fo- si fe_ting that someruing of the sor: must © befnceded in Whitehall, jome of them, v among their friends % are Ro more traitocs lef} in ts) eaiploy?” D> RE: MacLEAN CASE (Befile 100-378183) THE SUNDAY TIVES SEPTEMBER 25, 1955 have een mace into the antecedents | on the maxamam |}, indeed, claim to have | Foreign Office Oficiats who, though known to jave wyrked closely with Maclean, vemainfu i inferrogated to ibis day. Bub they by debtiy overlook tbe restraining infludpce Cothine laws of Ebel and slander bers, }which are fiable to make ” witch | hunting” an extremely cosuy sport, } A major weakness in the Government's ease, GB which there has been moss com London, concems the statemeny ly secret documents were 2 from Maciean otic ously have seen higaly secret, documents Ingenuous Claim Yet oartier in the White Paper it is ingenucusiy claimed that Maciean's former Departments the North American i cape—encouraged trans dence. Forvign diplomats in London generally seem to feel that Foreign Office pri Was (asea a bad knock, and & Ras heen widely vaiced — ihouga nangy reonited Ry Foreign Oiies megie bers, who are profoundly embarrassed dy the whole that Maclean subs iave had powerluy “ protections hind i es to haye been handl oh Kid gloves, {Worn Coeynicet) i LONDON, ENGLAND Tag F 7